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Hendricks also says that she’s flattered to have become a sex symbol to gay men since bringing her signature Joan walk to AMC’s hit show.

“They say to me, ‘Well, I'm not straight, but if I was…,’” she says.

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Hendricks says she’s come to appreciate all the positive attention she’s received over her figure, but was surprised “because it wasn’t something I was focused on.”

In the interview, she recounts dining with Arend during “Mad Men’s” first season when a woman approached her table.

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"'Excuse me, I just want to tell you that I watch your show, and you make me feel better about myself,” she recalls the woman saying. “I am a curvy woman, and you've made me feel sexy and beautiful.' I got teary eyed."

While growing up, Hendricks’ “voluptuous and curvy” mother never made diets a “big deal” or told her to watch her weight, she says.

Despite having a healthy body image, Hendricks still said going through puberty was “depressing.”

"I was a dancer, but my body was changing,” she tells Harper’s Bazaar. “Then all of a sudden I started getting boobs and my body wasn't playing along with my game plan. It got depressing for a bit, because I desperately wanted to be a ballerina.”